Quotes By Gene Simmons

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Everybody hates critics.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.